Agronomy Business Support Lead CE
McCain Foods
- Harnes, Pas-de-Calais
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- You are the ‘farming’ key contact with external customers at European level: primarily Quick Service Restaurants business but also the main retailers & Food Service customers, related to Agriculture (Potato) topics.
- You drive external customers in their Agriculture roadmap (e.g., Regenerative Agriculture, Varieties, CO2 footprint), working on aligning McCain and customer interests as much as possible.
- You propose action plans to external customers to feed their Agriculture roadmap.
- You implement these actions plans, communicate results to customers and improve these action plans accordingly.
- You translate external customer requests and roadmaps into development priorities for the Agronomy department.
- You provide regular updates on crop status (weekly, monthly + upon request).
- You develop specific tools to gather customers’ agricultural expectations and update it on a regular frequency.
- You represent McCain for any agricultural expectation from the customer.
- In collaboration with commercial and marketing teams, you build and roll-out the strategy to engage with external customers.
- You support the brand and develop Agriculture understanding internally through trainings/communication/events dedicated to internal stakeholders (especially customer facing teams).
- You keep the business up to date on crop evolution in the field and in storage.
- You have a master’s degree in agriculture or agronomy and excellent potato knowledge (growing practices, storing, economics, diseases, genomic, varieties developed regionally and globally).
- You have a basic knowledge of contracting policy, sourcing strategy and market drivers.
- You are an excellent relationship builder, to build sustainable relationships with the customers (internal & external).
- You have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders in a multicultural environment.
- You have excellent oral and written communications skills across all levels of the organization, and strong written and spoken English skills.
- French would be a plus.
- You will work on exciting projects for sustainable solutions in a technology and data driven company.
- You will have the opportunity to bring the agronomy organization to a higher level.
- A role in which you can show full ownership.
- An exciting full-time position.
- Extensive career and learning opportunities.
- This job will offer frequent travelling within European countries, with the possibility to work 50% from home.
Division: Continental Europe
Department: Agronomy CE
Location(s): FR - France : Pas-de-Calais : Harnes || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : LewedorpCompany: McCain Alimentaire SAS